Not only has Safeguard survived for 90 years, it has remained in the ownership of the Newman family throughout, with several members of it still extremely active in the business and present to enjoy the festivities. Therese Newman had flown from Vancouver to be there. Managing Director, Andrew Halliday, is not part of the family but […]

SJ. What is your background and what are the main requirements and motivations of your job? TS. I trained as a Chartered Accountant with a small firm and then KPMG before moving to rail. My remit is what we would know as white coach, The Kings Ferry, Eurolines and National Express Germany (Coach). I think that […]

Biggest of the three operating units is Arriva Merseyside headed by MD, Howard Farrall operating buses from depots at Bootle (100), Birkenhead (95), Green Lane (121), Speke (128), St Helens (123) and Southport (65). Heading Arriva Manchester is John Rimmer. He is responsible for over 220 buses based at depots in Wythenshawe (68), Bolton (66), […]

In England, the top scoring operator was Reading Buses, with 94% total satisfaction. In second place was Ipswich Buses, with 93%. Lothian Buses achieved a 96% overall satisfaction score, with punctuality and waiting times rated at 90% and 91% respectively, higher than the national averages of 77% and 76%. First Glasgow also scored very well, […]

Signing the Charter RNIB’s charter is designed to tackle the main problems faced by blind and partially sighted people, to give them a voice in a positive and constructive way. The RNIB’s ‘Stop for me, speak to me’ campaign has defined what these challenges are, with the organisation having spoken to older, disabled, blind and […]

Leader of the Labour Party, Ed Miliband, has said that he plans to ‘herald the biggest devolution of power to England’s great towns and cities in a hundred years’ as the next stage of Labour’s plan to lower the cost of living. He highlighted the interim conclusions of Andrew Adonis’s Growth Review, which recommended the […]

In late May 2014, the first Finnish VDL Citea Electric will be delivered to Veolia Transport Finland. The vehicle is to participate in the Finnish eBUS project, the Finnish government’s multi-year research project into electric vehicle systems. The Citea Electric will be included in the service roster of Espoo, a city that is part of […]

Reading Buses has introduced more buses on the special X9 service provided for the benefit of people working at Foster Wheeler’s headquarters at Shinfield Park in Reading. The operator is adding two more journeys in the morning and two in the afternoon to meet growing demand. Two new journeys have been added in the morning […]